To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Sent from Munich to Samara.

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      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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April 2, 1902

Motherdearest,

Ireceived Manyasha’s letter only a little while ago.
Thank her very much. A few days ago I wrote you that I
have had no news of you for a long time. I even started
sending Anyuta letters asking about you.

Asregards books—please tell Manyasha not to send
them until I let you have anewaddress.[3]I am grateful
to her for sorting out the books; theonlyGerman books
I should like to receive are those that are not needed (andnot even likely to be needed) in Russia by you orby
acquaintances. That is because I can easily get German
books here, there is no shortage of them. But there is a
shortage of Russian books, so please, couldallpossible
Russian books be picked out and evenallthe statistics and
put in a separate box, for I am beginning to miss these
things and am thinking of having them all sent. I am
particularly grateful to Manyasha for putting in some
Russian classics.

Howare you keeping now, my dear? Are you still
thinking of a trip abroad in summer? It would be excellent,
if it would not tire you too much.

Bestregards to Mark. Has he at last received permission
to leave?

Whatabout the
“doctor”[1]in Manchuria? I really shouldvery much like to correspond with him. Hasn’t his address
been discovered yet?

HasManyasha conveyed my best regards to the “old
acquaintance” whom I used to visit at the
farmstead?[2]I was very glad to have news of him.

Manyashashould also have a holiday in
summer—somewhere in the Zhiguli Hills, eh?

Iembrace you fondly, my dear; regards to all.

Yours,V. U.

[1]A.P. Sklyarenko.—Ed.

[2]SeeLetter No. 135.—Ed.

[3]Leninrefers here to books belonging to him that had been sent
from Siberia to his mother’s address in Moscow. Some of these
books are now at the Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism, Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.

Thenew address mentioned in the letter was necessary because
the centre for publishingIskrawas transferred from Munich to
London; Lenin left on April 12, 1902 (see next letter).